Rosa+Device


 * SUMMARY: Rosa Device died on May 5, 1878 after an abortion perpetrated in New York.**

Rosa Device, age about 26, was taken to Chambers Street Hospital in New York on Friday night, May 3, 1878. She was "in a hopeless condition" when she arrived. "She told the physicians in the hospital that she had been leading an evil life for three months, and had procured and taken drugs to produce an abortion.

She died just after midnight on Saturday night, which would have been the early morning hours of Sunday, May 5.

Source: "[|Death from Abortion]", //New York Times//, 6 May, 1878



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